Antonyms for annoy
əˈnɔɪan·noy

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1. annoyverb

   Antonyms:
   please

   Synonyms:
   nag, irk, irritate, hassle, bother, pester, bug, annoyance

2. annoyverb

   To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

   Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.

   Antonyms:
   please

   Synonyms:
   pester, irk, bug, irritate, hassle, bother, nag, annoyance

3. annoyverb

   That which causes such a feeling.

   Connie liked to annoy her brother by using him as a leg rest.

   Antonyms:
   please

   Synonyms:
   bother, bug, pester, hassle, nag, irk, irritate, annoyance

4. annoyverb

   To molest; to harm; to injure.

   Synonyms:
   irk, pester, bother, nag, bug, irritate, hassle

   Antonyms:
   please

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. annoy

   One may be annoyed by the well-meaning awkwardness of a servant, irritated by a tight shoe or a thoughtless remark, vexed at some careless neglect or needless misfortune, wounded by the ingratitude of child or friend. To tease is to give some slight and perhaps playful annoyance. Aggravate in the sense of offend is colloquial. To provoke, literally to call out or challenge, is to begin a contest; one provokes another to violence. To affront is to offer some defiant offense or indignity, as it were, to one's face; it is somewhat less than to insult. Compare PIQUE.

   Antonyms:
   conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please

   Synonyms:
   affront, aggravate, displease, exasperate, insult, irritate, offend, provoke, tease, vex, wound

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. annoy

   Antonyms:
   soothe, conciliate, appease, regard, quiet, accommodate, study, tend, foster, cherish, smooth, gratify

   Synonyms:
   tease, vex, irritate, disturb, affront, molest, pain, disquiet, incommode, tantalize, bother, weary, inconvenience, plague, discommode, harass, chafe, trouble

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.8 / 4 votes

1. annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devilverb

   cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

   "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

   Synonyms:
   nark, dumbfound, get at, reproof, chide, bait, mystify, urticate, rile, fret, dun, cod, razz, crucify, stick, bedevil, reprimand, reach, amaze, lambaste, devil, get to, rub, tantalise, frustrate, chew out, beat, lambast, trounce, tease, taunt, roil, access, berate, chew up, disoblige, torment, stupefy, lecture, trouble oneself, agitate, put out, rag, discommode, inconvenience oneself, ride, bewilder, dress down, irritate, tantalize, stir up, rally, make, remonstrate, flummox, incommode, get, baffle, jaw, rebuke, worry, pose, vex, inconvenience, perplex, raise up, bother, gravel, disturb, take to task, fray, gall, puzzle, trouble, bawl out, scratch, nettle, progress to, call on the carpet, commove, twit, excoriate, have words, chafe, scold, call down, shake up, nonplus

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1. annoyverb

   Synonyms:
   molest, trouble, plague, hector, bother, vex, pester, aggravate, chafe

How to use annoy in a sentence?

1. Sam Kerr:

   She kind of knows when Ive had a bad game or when shes had a bad game, and Carli Lloyd and Christen Press dont bring it up, its actually better, because its someone, you know when you talk to your parents and they say the wrong thing and annoy you, so Carli Lloyd and Christen Press kind of know what to say to each other.

2. Strategy Analytics consultant Roger Lanctot:

   It's not in carmakers' interest to annoy the dealer.

3. Marcus Aurelius:

   Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

4. Leo Valdez:

   I try very hard to be annoying. Don't insult my ability to annoy.

5. Robert Southey:

   I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

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